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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> GeoForAll-Europe <geoforall-europe-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Geral OSGeo-PT <geral@osgeopt.pt><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 30 May 2018 09:18<br>
<b>To:</b> geoforall-europe@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GeoForAll-Europe] How many reasons you need to attend FOSS4G-Europe 2018?</font>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:100%"><span lang="en-US">#1 FOSS4G-Europe is a community event, gathering the OSGeo members, leading developers, community managers, users and companies – all of which sharing the same open source principles. To make
it as accessible and inclusive to all, we did our best to welcome newcomers, to make it affordable for the majority, to make it friendly for families and for people traveling with their companions.
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:100%"><span lang="en-US">#2 FOSS4G-Europe welcomes new comers. “Remembering how we started” is our tagline. When we started, a few years ago, we didn’t knew much about open source and none of the jargon we use these
days. FOSS4G-Europe welcomes newbies, with entry level workshops, low prices for students and opportunities to be with and talk directly with more experienced OSGeo members.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:100%"><span lang="en-US">#3 FOSS4G-Europe is not expensive. We did our best to keep the registration prices as lower as possible. The main conference is 100,00 € for professionals. We include coffee breaks and provide
finger food during the event, to minimize attendee expenses. We also rent an entire hotel to offer low accommodation prices. Do you know you can stay four days for just 56,00 € at our FOSS4G Hostel? With breakfast included? And some free beers on the evening?</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:100%"><span lang="en-US">#4 FOSS4G-Europe is family friendly. We provide facilities (spaces and staff) for babysitting, we have a small apartment at the hostel for a family with kids (with kitchen facilities and a living
room) and we provide a near by location for motorhomes with discharges, garbage containers and water supply. How about driving to FOSS4G-Europe?</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:100%"><span lang="en-US">#5 FOSS4G-Europe has a very special program for accompanying persons: Douro River Cruise Tour, Braga and Viana do Castelo Tour and Douro Gastronomic Tour. This last tour includes a Michelin-starred
lunch, by the Douro river. (But this is not for you, right? It is for your partner ;-)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:100%"><span lang="en-US">#6 FOSS4G-Europe Venue. The historical centre of Guimarăes is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site, as an “</span><em><span lang="en-US">exceptionally well-preserved and authentic example of
the evolution of a medieval settlement into a modern town</span></em><span lang="en-US">” in Europe. Guimarăes is served by Oporto airport, with several low cost companies flying to Oporto.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:100%"><span lang="en-US">#7 FOSS4G-Europe Program. Didn’t we mentioned the Conference Program yet? We have the very first draft of the program online, with so many topics covered, ranging for introductory topics down
to very up to date developments. You can reach it here: <a href="https://foss4g-europe.osgeopt.pt/conference-program/" id="LPlnk24934" class="x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
https://foss4g-europe.osgeopt.pt/conference-program/</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:100%"><span lang="en-US">#8 FOSS4G-Europe Keynote speakers. Do you already know Maria Arias de Reyna, Steven Feldman, Victor Olaya and Malcolm Bain? Traditionally, OSGeo FOSS4G keynotes are awesome! To make sure that
the tradition keeps going strong, we were able to get four </span><em><span lang="en-US">great keynote speakers</span></em><span lang="en-US">. Each of them is unique and will talk about four completely different topics, all related to FOSS4G. Do not miss
these keynotes!</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:100%"><span lang="en-US">#9 FOSS4G-Europe Workshops. We have lots of workshops! We make it very hard for you to choose from so many different options. Hurry, because some of them and nearly full.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:100%"><span lang="en-US">#10 FOSS4G-Europe needs you! We are shaping the OSGeo Europe chapter to address Europe own regulations, the specific business ecosystem, among other issues. Come and join the OSGeo European local
chpater and discuss these specific needs.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:100%"><span lang="en-US">Best regards,</span></p>
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